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Rainfall in August 2023
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- Rainfall in August had been the least in over a century.
- India got 36% less rain than it usually does in the month.
- Of the four monsoon months, August usually sees the most amount of rainfall (25.4 cm) after July’s 28 cm.
- The last time India recorded such severe deficits in August was in 2005, when the shortfall was about 25% of the normal.
- In 2009, India saw its biggest drought in half a century and August rainfall was 24% less than what was due.
- Rainfall in August has brought the overall, national deficit to 10%.
- The regional deficits are being 17% in east and northeast India, 10% in central India, and 17% in southern India.
- Strengthening of the El Nino and unfavourable conditions both in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal August rainfall has been markedly deficient in most of India.
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